Re: [ARSCLIST] John Hammond discovered everybody, was Community Radio

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not really..Seeger was recording for Asch and Disc (Folkways' predecessors) in the 78 era and was making LPs for Folkways from their inception, all through the Weavers era and well beyond. He was probably just as happy to be living in the country, chopping wood and growing his own food and doing an occasional gig.

dl

Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:

> Good question.I never paid too much attention to Seeger.I mean I recognize his importantance,as a historical figure,of American dissent,but I never liked his music.(I don't particularly care for folk music as a whole.)I had always thought,he stuck with Folkways,for the same reason Decca dropped The Weavers.Meaning ,after the HUAC hearings,no other label wanted to touch him.Am I correct ?
> Roger  Kulp
>
> Cary Ginell <SoundThink@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/17/2006 5:26:43 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> John  Hammond was responsible for discovering Benny Goodman, Count Basie,
> Billie
> Holiday, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin,  Pete
> Seeger,
> and Bruce Springsteen, among others.
>
> You can make credible arguments about just about all of the above,  except
> Seeger, which is a really ludicrous statement. Seeger helped form the  Almanac
> Singers in the early '40s, some two decades before Hammond happened upon  him.
> Then he helped form the Weavers and had a whole other career in the early
> '50s before being snuffed out by the HUAC. So where was Hammond when Pete was
> blacklisted during the '50s???
>
> Cary  Ginell
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